Advantages and Disadvantages of Health Care Accreditation Models

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1 Health Promotion Perspectives, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2011; P: 1-31 SYSTEMATIC REVIEW Open Access and of Health Care Accreditation Models *Jafar S. Tabrizi 1, Farid Gharibi 2, Andrew J. Wilson 3 1 Public Health and Management Department, Faculty of Health and Nutrition, b) National Public health Management Centre, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran 2 Dept. of Health Services Management, Faculty of Health and Nutrition, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz- Iran 3 Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane-Australia (Received : 13 March 2011/ Accepted : 10 July 2011) ABSTRACT Background: This systematic review seeks to define the general advantages and disadvantages of accreditation programs to assist in choosing the most appropriate approach. Method: Systematic search of SID, Ovid Medline & PubMed databases was conducted by the keywords of accreditation, hospital, medical practice, clinic, accreditation models, health care and Persian meanings. From 2379 initial articles, 83 articles met the full inclusion criteria. From initial analysis, 23 attributes were identified which appeared to define advantages and disadvantages of different accreditation approaches and the available systems were compared on these. Six systems were identified in the international literature including the JCAHO from, the Canadian program of CCHSA, and the accreditation programs of UK, Australia, New Zealand and France. The main distinguishing attributes among them were: quality improvement, patient and staff safety, improving health services integration, public s confidence, effectiveness and efficiency of health services, innovation, influence global standards, information management, breadth of activity, history, effective relationship with stakeholders, agreement with AGIL attributes and independence from government. Conclusion: Based on 23 attributes of comprehensive accreditation systems we have defined from a systematic review, the JCAHO accreditation program of and then CCHSA of Canada offered the most comprehensive systems with the least disadvantages. Other programs such as the ACHS of Australia, ANAES of France, QHNZ of New Zealand and UK accreditation programs were fairly comparable according to these criteria. However the decision for any country or health system should be based on an assessment weighing up their specific objectives and needs. Keywords: Quality, Accreditation, Hospital, Health care Introduction A feature of good governance of health systems is the demonstration of its effectiveness, efficiency and quality to users, the community and funders. Countries have taken different approaches to ensuring quality and improving standards in health care services. In some countries, quality assurance in health care has been *Corresponding Author: Jafar S. Tabrizi. Tel: +98 (411) ; fax: +98 (411)

2 Tabrizi et al.: and of Health Care left to professional organizations and provider associations with little specific regulation. Participation in quality assurance programs is largely voluntary or driven by funder requirements. In other countries, particularly where the state is the main funder and provider of health care, rigid controls are imposed over the health sector, leaving little scope for professional autonomy and consumer engagement. Unfortunately, this is frequently accompanied by acceptance of minimum standards and little openness in disclosing relative performance [1]. Accreditation of health care systems is increasingly seen as an approach to ensuring health standards in both private and public system for financing and provision of health care. In countries where health care is largely non government funded, it is seen as a light touch approach to ensuring quality and safety and by providers as a marketing advantage. In publicly funded systems, it is seen as a way of providing independent assurance of quality. In recent decades, the quality movement that has been embraced by the service and manufacturing sectors has spilled into the health care sector. The fundamental quality assurance and improvement theories from Joseph Juran and Edwards Deming, as well as the comprehensive quality management approaches of Total Quality Management (TQM) and Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI), are finding their way into the daily operations of health care organizations around the world. The collection of these factors has created a climate in which decision makers at all levels are seeking objective quality evaluation data on health care organizations. Licensure, accreditation, and certification are systems available to meet the need for quality and performance information. These systems have different purposes and different capabilities [2]. It is proposed as an objective method to verify the status of health service providers and their compliance with accepted standards [1]. In a various industries, accreditation is recognized as a symbol of quality, indicating that the organization meets certain performance standards, and provides an opportunity for that organization to evaluate their operation against national or international standards [3]. Accreditation is widespread in industry and education and there are many lessons for the health sector air safety, food safety, and childcare [4]. In broad terms accreditation usually involves a voluntary program, frequently sponsored by a non-governmental agency (NGOs), in which trained external peer reviewers evaluate a health care organization's compliance with pre-established performance standards. To develop an accreditation decision regarding a health care organization s capacity to meet available performance standards, a group of qualified peer reviewers carries out an assessment of the organization at designated intervals, normally every 2 or 3 years [1]. Assessment is made by review of documentation of policies, standards, and procedures, interviews with managers, staff, and patients, and sometimes-direct observation of practice [2]. Other benefits reported from engaging in accreditation include increases in team work and internal cohesion, motivation to standardize clinical and administrative procedures, integration and revision of quality agenda, development of internal self-assessment, learning from experiences of reviewers, improvements in hospitals image, and in consumer, purchaser and staff satisfaction [1]. The processes and underlying standards for accreditation must be designed with regard to the needs and expectation of each country. These will be impacted by the types of health system, the level of care it aspires to provide, national rules and cultural, social, political and religious requirements. However, given that the core business of health systems is very similar across countries and health systems, there are likely to be learning from existing system especially 2

3 Health Promotion Perspectives, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2011; P: 1-31 those, which are relatively well-established [2]. Moreover, currently a number of countries are adopting and modifying accreditation systems developed in other countries. Examples include the use in Ireland of the Canadian Council on Health Services Accreditation (CCHSA) system, the use of the JACHO system by many private hospitals in India, and the Australian Council of Healthcare Standards system in Hong Kong [5]. This study aims to identify the key attributes of major established health care accreditation system and examine their relative advantages and disadvantages from the perspective of an emerging economy country such as Iran. Materials and Methods The present study is a systematic review. SID, Ovid MEDLINE and PUBMED databases were searched with key words of accreditation, hospital, medical practice, clinic, accreditation models and health care for the period of January 1985 to December This strategy resulted in 2369 articles. Inclusion and exclusion criteria were articles in English and Farsi, assessing accreditation models, and considering advantages and disadvantages of various accreditation models. First, titles of all articles were reviewed and 826 articles were excluded due to inconsistency with the study aims and 42 articles were duplicates in both MEDLINE and PUBMED databases. Second, abstracts of the remaining 1501 articles were assessed and a further 747 articles were excluded because the focus was on methodology and stakeholders perception about accreditation in general. Third, the remaining 754 articles were assessed for reference to attributes and advantages and disadvantages of any accreditation models which was not found in 681 of these papers. This left 73 articles of most relevance to the topic and study aims (Fig. 1). Further searches for possible literature published in places other than indexed journals was undertaken using internet search engines, potentially relevant websites and library searches. This identified 3 reports and 7 books related to the study aims. In total 73 articles and 10 other sources were included in the reviewed material. All papers were reviewed by two of the authors and attributes or themes identified in any paper were listed. This produced a list with many common aspects and this was consolidated into the list of items, henceforth referred to as attributes as shown in Table 2. Each program was then considered against those attributes drawing on the information from all the reviewed papers. A star rating system is used to indicate the extent to which each program was qualitatively assessed as having positive aspects of each attribute. 3

4 Tabrizi et al.: and of Health Care Review titles of 2369 articles 826 articles for no relevance, excluded from study Review abstract of 1501 articles 42 articles for repetition, excluded from study 747 articles excluded, related to methods and stakeholders opinion Review method and results of 754 articles 681 articles for no relevance, excluded from study Review whole content of 73 articles Summarize the key issues in the extraction table Fig. 1: Systematic Review approach for searched articles Results and Discussion The main results of this study were summarized in the extraction tables in Appendix 1. Table 1 shows the frequency of citation of different accreditation programs in the identified literature. The most cited program is the US based JCAHO/JCI which was referred to in 91% of the papers reviewed here. This was well in front of the nearest rival, the Canadian, UK and Australian based programs which were referred to in about 1 in 5 papers. Table 2 lists the attributes of program attributes against the identified accreditation programs. In keeping with the level of citation of the JACHO program, it met all the attributes at a high level. This program has the strongest focus on quality, design of standards to identify and prevention of injury in health care, use of wide and suitable quality indicators, emphasis on "best practice"[6-26]. Among the other pro- 4

5 Health Promotion Perspectives, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2011; P: 1-31 grams, the Australian ACHS program, has a special focus on the improvement of clinical care, and involves specialists in the formal quality activities using quality programs such as CEP [11]. The Canadian CCHSA program has a stronger emphasis on continuous quality improvement [27]. Processes for ensuring patient and staff safety are one of the main purposes of accreditation programs. This is reflected strongest in the JCAHO model. This program requires the health care organizations to have safety team or leader. It highlights critical process issues such as performance assessment for hazardous medicine management, safety tests for point-of-care technology (including accuracy), universal protocols for preventing wrong site, wrong procedure and wrong person in surgery or invasive procedures, the compulsory reporting of adverse drug or other events and root cause analysis of all adverse events [7-9,11,17,18,28-45]. The CCHSA is the other program with a particular strong focus on safety. The CCHSA Environment standards include provisions regarding the safety of equipment, supplies, medical devices and space, and focus on the appropriateness of furniture and equipment for customers age [46]. The third attribute, improving integration and management of health services, was also strongly reflected in comments about the JACHO program [10,12,19,22,27,47-49]. The JCAHO accreditation program is noted for its performance indicators such as the QIO (The Quality Improvement Organization) indicator of Medicare and Medicaid or ORYX (performance measurement systems). The intent of these attributes is the extent of standardization of procedures, such as deliver of rapid results to patients outside the laboratory [8]. This is also a strong feature of the CCHSA [22,27,50]. Providing a database to publish accreditation information and comparisons among health care organizations is another purpose of accreditation. JCAHO and its international version (JCI) are the only programs reported to have established a database for comparison between accredited organizations [22,51]. A key purpose of accreditation is to strengthen the public s confidence in the quality of health care. Public reporting is one aspect of this but so is stakeholder engagement. The JCAHO and CCHSA programs seemed to be stronger than other programs in on this indictor [4,6,7,11,17-19,22,28,46,52-54]. The effectiveness and efficiency of health care services is of increasing interest to government, funders, and consumers. None of the programs was strong on this attribute [55]. Internationalization is one attribute of broader acceptance of programs, although clearly it also reflects active marketing. JCAHO has established a specific international branch, the JCI, which appears to be unique to this program. It is also evident that JCAHO is actively collaborating with the WHO as a consultant body to reduce medical errors [1,9,56], and with the ID and other international organizations [57]. Other programs such as the ACHS also have international activity, but this appears to be at a lower level. Innovation and currency are two important attributes for quality assurance organizations so evidence of regular updating of standards and development of standards for new fields is important. JCAHO regularly updates their standards [10,13-15,42,47,51,58-66], was the first program to introduce QI (Quality Improvement) programs to the health care industry [10], introduced special standards for pain management [60,62,67,68], hospital libraries [51,63,66], tobacco smoking control in the health care centers [58] and pastoral care [59]. Other programs have also responded to new areas or local needs, for example CCHSA introduced standards for Telehealth [50,69] and ANAES of France established accreditation of colleges [70]. 5

6 Tabrizi et al.: and of Health Care An important attribute of the standing of different programs is the extent to which they influence global standards and other accreditation programs (the role of reference program). According to the WHO reports, the JCAHO, CCHSA, ANAES, and ACHS programs have had the most influence on the global accreditation standards [56]. According to the peak international quality standards organization, ISQua the programs from, UK, Canada, Australia and France were the most influential on the European accreditation standards. Attention to patients' rights and creating an ethical environment in the health care centers are important issues in health care quality. The JCAHO program pays excellent attention to the effective communication with patient, providing required information to them, patients' essential rights in health care centers, and the importance of effective informed consent. It also has a strong focus on other patient centered standards for example in palliative care and pain management, and overall patient satisfaction [11,16,20,27,60-62,67,68,71-76]. For health care organizations, information management is a key determinant of business efficiency, effectiveness, and quality. JCAHO and CCHSA have the most emphasis on the evidence-based decisionmaking through efficient information management. The New Zealand QHNZ program is also notable in this domain. [3]. JCAHO has a special focus on patient centered information and medical documentation [3]. The CCHSA has more emphasis on staff education in the health care centers but the JCAHO has the most comprehensive standards in medical documentation, data security, and confidentiality [3]. Moreover, JCAHO and JCI programs encourage health care organizations to use computer technology for exploring adverse events, accelerating laboratory and pathology results and providing accurate information to health care managers [3,45,52,77]. The length of time (history) that a program has continued is a marker of its sustainability. JCAHO is the oldest accreditation program in the world with lineage back to a program established by the American Surgery Association in the The CCHSA was established in 1957 and the ACHS in Creating effective relationship with all stakeholders is important because customer centeredness is a philosophic and significant principle of quality improvement. In the majority of accreditation programs, the patient survey (assessing the quality of care from the patient perspective) is mandatory, but only in the NCQA of and EQUAM of Switzerland programs are the results of patient survey related to the accreditation process [6]. JACHO has a specific process to receive input from stakeholders. In the recent years, JACHO has added six seats to its governing board and designated them as public member seats. All of accreditation programs incorporate some aspects of public disclosure and public awareness programs, but JCAHO has more emphasis on public information and informing the public about all required information in detail [4,22,52-54]. The AGIL attribute is based on the concept of balancing the four dimensions of performance, Adaptation (the ability to survive and grow in a changing environment), Goal focus (the extent to which it pursues efficiency, effectiveness and customer satisfaction), Integration (the extent to which productive activity is well aligned with core business) and Latency (the values and culture of the organization). As assessed in the reviewed literature, the JACHO and CCHSA programs were seen as best achieving this balance [56]. The breadth of activity is an attribute of the informational, equipmental and logistical scope of the accreditation program. The JCAHO program has the widest accreditation scope accrediting all health centers including hospitals, home care centers; 6

7 Health Promotion Perspectives, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2011; P: 1-31 acute care, heart acute care, ICU, longterm care, managed care and health care networks. [2,4,5,13-15,21,78,79], The CCHSA, ACHS and QHNZ have similar coverage to each other [2,4,79]. The International Society of Quality in Healthcare (ISQua) is the peak international body on health care quality activity and provides an accreditation of accreditation programs. ISQua certification means that accreditation organization has achieved the highest level of quality in the accreditation field. Only the JCAHO (JCI), CCHSA, and ACHS programs have achieved ISQua certification [9]. To take a comprehensive picture of health care organizations performance accreditation standards need to cover the three domains of structure (resources and inputs), process, and outcomes. The JCAHO, CCHSA and UK accreditation programs explicitly consider all three types of standards [2,54]. The intent statements are critical elements of accreditation programs as they guide the surveyor s assessment. They need to be comprehensive with detailed guidance explanations The JCAHO, CCHSA, and ACHS have appropriate intent statements [2]. Voluntary participation is seen as a positive attribute of accreditation processes because participation in and of itself is then seen as a priority for the organization. Most accreditation programs are voluntary although governments and funders can prescribe participation a as a requirement for full or partial reimbursement or funding. While several health systems actively promote participation, only the French l AN- AES program is compulsory [2,4,79]. The independence of accreditation programs from government and funders is seen to be a critical aspect of good programs. Only the French and New Zealand programs were established, funded, and managed by their governments [4]. The intensity and workload of an accreditation program is an important consideration in selecting a reference accreditation program, as is the level of qualifications and training required of surveyors. The JCAHO program is the most intensive with multiple surveys per year and consequently the highest cost. JCAHO requires the highest educational level (MSc or PhD) and this organization spends the most amount of money for staff training programs [1,4,23,53,78,80]. The purpose of this study was to assess the advantages and disadvantages of established accreditation programs in order to select the best reference program for developing a nation specific health care quality improvement and accreditation program. The researchers reviewed published papers and other sources to identify the most important attributes for accreditation programs to enable comparison between the many of the programs currently available in the world. Based on this analysis the accreditation program of the JCAHO provides the most comprehensive coverage and was ranked high on most but not all attributes. As the longest running program it has influenced most other existing programs and continues to be a major international trend setter in accreditation. However, it is also likely to be one of the most expensive because of the intensity of surveys, the qualification and training levels expected of staff, and the level of standards required achieving accreditation. JCAHO ranked highly on its focus on quality and safety, management integration, public reporting and public confidence building, and breadth of activity. It had the highest national and international profile and influence. It was clearly responsive to innovation and to maintaining currency in this standing. It has a strong focus on patient rights and creating an ethical environment. Communication and information management were also a key feature. It is important to note that while several of the programs could be appropriate refer- 7

14 Tabrizi et al.: and of Health Care Auras & Geraeots 2010 Germany T. Smith 2010 UK R. Saitz 2010 S. Miller 2009 Australia Felix & To describing content, method and scope as well as differences, commonalities and unique features regarding the integration of patients experience data into international practice accreditation programs {The comparison of 9 accreditation programs from Germany (QEP STPS & KTQ), Switzerland (EQUAM), UK (QPA), Netherland (NPA), (JCAHO & NCQA) and Australia (AGPAL) To emphasis on culture relationship within organizations between managers and professional, and patients and incentive ways of rewarding behavior to enhance quality To describe the performance measures of JCAHO to addressing unhealthy substance use in hospitalized patients To provide an overview of existing practices in surveyor management and identify elements of best practice in the management of surveyors (compares between JCAHO CCHSA ACHS KFOA HAP & NZC) To describe the development and passage of Arkansas Act 134 of 2005, the first state life to prohibit the use of tobacco product on the grounds of all nonfederal community hospital facility in the state Systematic comparative analysis Review study Report - In QEP STPS EQUAM QPA NPA JCAHO & NCQA the patient survey (service quality and satisfaction) is mandatory. - EQUAM QPA NPA & NCQA are use of structured patient survey - In the NCQA & EQUAM patient survey results relevant to accreditation - In the KTQ & AGPAL the patient survey is not mandatory. - In the QEP KTQ AGPAL و JCAHO don't use of structured patient survey - In the STPS KTQ QPA NPA JCAHO & AGPAL patient survey results don't relevant to accreditation - In 2008 JCAHO emphasis on organizational responsibility for patient safety. - JCAHO standards require leaders of organizations to create a culture of safety, implement patient safety programs, ensure adequate and timely responses to adverse events when they occur. - Most of these recommended policies and practices are based on well-established researches evidence or expert consensus. - This organization emphasis on "best practice" in all situations. - The JCAHO recently propose performance measures addressing unhealthy substance use in hospitalized patients. - for this order JCAHO introduced SBI (screening and brief intervention). - In the six accreditation bodies, JCAHO had the most stringent requirement in terms of surveyor education qualification and training. - Surveyors employed by JCAHO generally have an advanced degree (i.e. master's or doctor's degree), undergo more intensive orientation, initial training, assessment and certification process, and undertake a higher volume of surveys per years. - In 1992, the JCAHO created the first health industry-wide workplace smoking ban with passage of standards requiring acutecare hospitals to prohibit indoor smoking to receive JCAHO accreditation. - The indoor smoking ban in hospital significantly reduced tobacco consumption among employees, reducing exposure to EST, and positioned hospitals to serve as a role models in encouraging other businesses and organization to adopt similar policies.

15 Health Promotion Perspectives, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2011; P: 1-31 F. EL-Jardali & 2009 Lebanon To assess the perception of HR managers about the challenges they face and current strategies being adopted D. P. Pasternak 2008 Dubai (UAE) F. EL-Jardali & 2008 Lebanon Cadge & 2008 G. A. Tuttle 2008 Maslow & Mezey 2008 Cross-Sectional study - In Lebanon accreditation standards, development of HR strategic plans is one part of requirements. - The upcoming accreditation survey of Lebanese hospitals presents an opportunity to strengthen HR management and enhance competencies of existing HR managers. To enumerates the risks addressed and the standards and international patient safety goals that address them - The main emphasis of JCI standards is always on quality of patient care and reduction of safety risk to patients. - The JCI standards for patient care entities have a paucity of references to POC testing. - JCI standards address the risks involved by dealing with issues of patients' assessment, care planning, quality management, governance and leadership, medical equipment management, human resource management and the international patient safety goals. To assess the perceived impact of accreditation on quality of care through the lens of health care professionals, specially nurses Cross-Sectional study To examines the presence and absence of chaplaincy or pastoral care services in hospital using the American Hospital Association Annual Survey of Hospital in , and To reporting about consultation in medical services To describe the try to recognition of dementia in hospitalized older adults Report - The high score for the variable "quality results indicates that nurses perceived an improvement in quality during and after the accreditation process. - Predictors of better quality results, leadership, commitment and support, use of data, quality management, had the greatest impact in medium-sized hospitals while the subscale measuring involvement had the greatest impact in small-sized hospitals. - Over the past 25 years, JCAHO has changed its guidelines regarding religious/spiritual care of hospitalized patients to increase attention concerning this aspect of hospital based care by provision of hospital chaplaincy. - The JCI accreditation program are based on an international set of standards comparable to us domestic standards, which have been characterized by international consensus, quality management and patient safety, but don't reflect US laws and regulations. - JCI accreditation standards also address the care of patients after discharge to ensure the continuity of care that patient received. - In August 2007, JCI received accreditation by the International Society for Quality in Healthcare (ISQua). In 2005, WHO partnered with JCAHO and JCI to eliminates medical errors world wide and improve patient safety as part of the WHO alliance for patient safety. - Joint Commission patient safety goals specifically address falls and pressure ulcers and also require a face-to-face assessment and documentation for all patients in physical restraint, a1nd inappropriate use of restraint can results in loss of accreditation. - In order to make accreditation an effective regulatory instrument, there is a need to assess quality based on patient outcome indicators. In Lebanon's' accreditation program, this issue was neglected from this fact. - The impact of Lebanon's' accreditation program on hospitals with different size is note same. 15

16 Tabrizi et al.: and of Health Care Bever & 2008 To provide a general background on the quality improvement movement in health care along with an introduction to some of the major issues that are currently important R. K. Crone 2008 L. Murphy-Knoll Formal QI did not enter health care until the 1980s, when the JCAHO mandated QI and performance measures (outcome and process) for hospital accreditation. To introducing of trends in globalization in health care - JCI has become a significant tool to help hospitals to attract patients and staff and competitive globally. - The number of hospitals and health centers that accredited by JCI is rising. To provide an update for readers on how low health literacy puts patients at risk - The JCAHO's standards underscore the fundamental right and need for patients to receive information about their care in a way in which they can understand. Smits & 2007 Canada To compare the conceptualization of performance underlying different accreditation manuals (compare of main accreditation models from, Canada, France and Australia) Comparative study - From the WHO view,, Canada, France and Australia are the countries that have the most impact on accreditation standards in the world. - The and Canada accreditation models are the best represented the dimensions of performance (AGIL indicator). Greenfield & Braithwaite 2007 Australia 16 To provide a review of health accreditation research literature sector Book - Hospitals that not surveyed by JCAHO had, on average, lower quality and higher thirty-day mortality rates than did surveyed hospitals (in hospitalized patient with acute myocardial infraction). - The ACHS (Australia) established the Care Evaluation Program (CEP) of clinical performance measures in its accreditation program to increase the clinical components of that program and to increase medical practitioner involvement in formal quality activity in their health care organizations there is documented evidence of improved management and numerous examples of improved patient outcome. - Studied indicated that in accreditation programs of JAPAN (ICQHC) there are a positive relationship between accreditation scores and patients' satisfaction. - The patients that received all discharged instructions that determined by JCAHO, were significantly less readmission. - Descriptive studies revealed a significant improvement in the performance of US hospitals that accredited by JCAHO. - The JCAHO accreditation levels have limited usefulness in distinguishing individual performance among accredited hospitals. - The NCQA () accreditation is positively associated with some measures of quality but doesn t assure a minimal level of performance. - A study concluded that Joint Commission measures are generally not correlated with outcome measures. It saw that a potentially serious disjuncture exists between the outcome measures and Joint Commission evaluation. - While a majority of the hospitals had either JCAHO accreditation, HCFA (Health Care Financing Administration), or both, analysis revealed a weak relationship between accreditation or certification status and indicators of quality of care.

17 Health Promotion Perspectives, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2011; P: 1-31 May & 2007 To contrast the model of informed consent oversight employed by most IRBs with that most commonly employed by hospital ethics committee at academic medical centers Comparativedescriptive study To identify the relationship between hospital quality and the level of efficiency Australia To survey worldwide medical, ethical, and legal trends and initiatives related to the concept of pain management as a human right To determine attitudes towards collecting race/ethnicity and language Qualitative and quantitative study Harrison & Coppola 2007 Brennan & 2007 Baker & 2007 Adams & 2007 M. T. Siddiqui 2007 M. Salisbury 2007 HCPs To provides an overview of the evidence about components of the evaluation and treatment of adults with acute ischemic stroke Qualitative study To give background perspective on the development of universal protocols and elaborates the JCAHO National Patient Safety Goals regarding the performance of fine needle aspiration To examine the impact of certification in the safe operation on outpatient surgical facilities - informed consent emphasis mechanisms for enhancing conversation between patients and health care providers, how is a requirement for hospital accreditation by JCAHO for addressing ethical issues. - The JCAHO use of wide quality indicators in its model. - The JCAHO evaluates the following quality measures: initial assessment, medication use, anesthesia care, operative procedures, competence assessment, patient specific data and infection control. - The JCAHO accreditation model has pain management standards in its model. - Existing evidence shows that JCAHO was success in this issue and its standards are effective. - The JCAHO set new accreditation standards in 2006 requiring hospital to record patients' predominant language' in its documents. - The JCAHO obliged the hospitals to relationship with patients by their language. - The JCAHO began a formal process for the certification of PSCs (primary stroke center) in February The JCAHO accreditation process includes a detailed evaluation of hospital staffing, education, disease management programs, outcome and infrastructures. - The purpose of this work was that ensure that these centers have the expertise and resources to provide modern stroke care. - The adherence of the universal protocol for preventing 'wrong site', 'wrong procedures' and 'wrong person' surgical or invasive procedures is a requirements for all Joint Commission accredited organizations. - This standards also notice to fine needle aspiration. - The JCAHO HFAP and AAAASF are the largest entities for accreditation of out patient surgical facilities. - All of these accreditation bodies provide standards of operation that maintain a level of care and improve patient safety. 17

18 Tabrizi et al.: and of Health Care Anderson & 2007 To examine the developmental trend in information reported by hospital participating in a regional reporting system for medication errors Safdari & Meidani 2006 Iran Vitale & O'Connor 2006 Leonhardt & Botticelli One of the main causes that lead to increase in medication errors reporting significantly is the accreditation standards of JCAHO. To compare the strengths and weaknesses of information management (IM) standards of three well-established national accreditation agencies in Canada, and New Zealand Comparativedescriptive study - All of these accrediting agencies have acceptable reliability, accuracy and validity as data quality. - JCAHO and CCHSA have adopted maximum standards related to evidence-based decision making. - Achieving positive outcomes was adopted by CCHSA and QHNZ, and is among the strongest point of their standards. - The CCHSA and QHNZ had adopted the same standards with emphasis on information management planning, achieving positive outcomes and making improvement. - The strong point of JCAHO's standards are patient specific information and evidence-based decision-making. - The JCAHO has considered the most complete standards related to patient specific information standards that enclose medical record content. - All of these accrediting organizations have developed some similar standards in confidentiality. - Supporting evidence based decision-making, comprise organization process to effectively manage information, included the capturing, reporting, processing, retrieving, disseminating, and displaying of clinical service and non clinical data information, JCAHO has adopted maximum standards in this area. - Being a learning organization covers those standards that IM processes support managerial and operational decision, performance improvement activity, patient care, treatments and services decisions, that in this section, all of the accreditation agencies have regarded same standards. - CCHSA have regarded most complete and suitable standards related to educational and staff development standards. - JCAHO has made the most complete standards related to medical record content and some similar standards in order to preserving its confidentiality and security. To compare reports of pain and levels of state anxiety in 2 group of women after abdominal hysterectomy Pilot study - The JCAHO by using of its standards had a suitable effect on pain management in American hospitals. This organization emphasis on pain management for response to patient needs in surgical patients. To introduce the collaboration of seven independent health care organizations to improve patient safety - The members of this collaboration reviewed the JCAHO requirement and literature on medication errors to select a standardized list of high-risk abbreviations to the targeted for elimination. - Significant results achieved in these hospitals and were recognized with a 2004 Institute for Safe Medication Practice Cheer Award.

19 Health Promotion Perspectives, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2011; P: 1-31 J. E. Nelson 2006 To review the barriers and relevant empirical evidence to high-quality palliative care in the end-of-life care Curtis & 2006 Vansuch & 2006 Review study - The organizations and workgroups the work related to palliative care, use from JCAHO and its standards widely. To summarize key concepts and outline a practical approach to develop, implement, evaluate and sustain a quality improvement program in the intensive care unit (ICU) - The JCAHO have promoted awareness of the importance of improving quality of care in the ICU. - The JCAHO in one of the organizations that develop its own list of potential ICU quality measures. - The organizations such as JCAHO and IHI are defining, operationalizing and evaluating quality measures that can be used by the quality improvement team. To determine whether documentation of compliance with any or all of the six required discharge instructions is correlated with readmission to hospital or mortality Retrospective study - The discharged instructions are one of the components of JCAHO's standards related to heart failure care. - These instructions designed based on expert opinions. - Evidence shows that patients who received all instructions were significantly less likely to be readmitted for any cause (P=0/003) and for heart failure (P=0/035) than those who missed at least one type of instruction. - Documentation of discharge instructions is correlated with readmission rate. - There was no association between documentation of discharge instructions and mortality Wolosin & 2006 To analyze safety ratings data of more than 600,000 patients Cross-sectional study - The JCAHO implemented a set of "National Safety Goals", and Leapfrog Group has put pressure on hospitals to disclose the extent to which they are following the safety guidelines. M. Skiba 2006 To examines the definition and assessment of medication errors and some of the emerging technology used to alleviate them - The JCAHO expanded its performance improvement standards to include specific requirement to ensure patient safety. - The JCAHO standards have specific emphasis on medication errors and prevention of them - In new accreditation standards of JCAHO, the term of "medication use" has been renamed "medication management" to better reflect of process, and tow new steps have been added to the medication use process: medication selection and procurement and storage. - This new definition does include anesthetic agents that are purchased in liquid from before becoming a gas. Telehealth Working Group 2005 Canada To introduce of New Brunswicks Strategic Plan for Telehealth Report - The CCHSA of Canada is the one of the largest accreditation model in the world that executes the Telehealth technology. - This model could improve continuity of care and patients' education by using of this technology. 19

20 Tabrizi et al.: and of Health Care Woods & 2005 To obtain information about patient safety issues H. C. Polk 2005 K. G. Menghini 2005 Qualitative study - The increased public awareness about patient safety following the establishment of JCAHO's safety goals, led many institutions to seek a better understanding of their patient safety risks and to design improvement plans. To examine our knowledge and public attitude regarding quality, safety, and minimization of medical errors Qualitative & quantitative study - Quality, safety and minimization of errors are seemingly the sides of an equilateral triangle that JCAHO focus on them. - The JCAHO has recently weighed in with a white paper that directly links improved patient safety to a significant alteration in professional and liability matters and particularly recommended demonstration project to that end. To present pragmatic suggestions for evaluating current written materials and developing new NICU parent-education materials with lower readability levels - The JCAHO recognized the need for education of patient as one of their rights and emphasis on it in its standards. - This organization seek for making a condition that the education of patient and their coadjutors done effectively. B. M. Goldsmith 2005 To introduce of POC testing - provide and use of POC (point of care testing) is one of the requirements of JCAHO accreditation. M. M. Shabot 2005 To describe the JCAHO's ICU core measures - The JCAHO recently established six core measures as indicators of quality in the delivery of care to adult intensive care unit (ICU) patients. - These measures provide a robust picture of service delivery in this department. Fan & 2005 To introduce the hospital incident reporting ontology (HIRO) - The HIRO is being developed in Protégé-OWL to demonstrate feasibility and clinical value of using an ontology to combine, compare, and analyze data from across many public and private reporting systems collecting adverse events and near misses for patient safety. The HIRO is based on the JCAHO Patient Safety Event Taxonomy (PEST) and de-identified hospital incident reports. Pomy & 2005 Canada To analysis the particular characteristics of the "French style" accreditation process and how their implementation could result in paradoxes related to quality improvement, professional winners, and objectives 20 There are the number of paradoxes in French accreditation: (1) the fact that accreditation is mandatory lends itself to ambiguity and links the process to inspection; (2) the fact that decision makers can use the information contained in the accreditation report for resource allocation can incite establishment to adopt strategic behaviors aimed merely at complying with the accreditation ; and (3) there is a tendency for establishment to reduce quality processes to nothing more than the completion of accreditation and focus effort on standardizing practices and resolving safety Issue to the determinant of organizational development.

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